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Challenges older adults face in detecting deceit: the role of emotion recognition
Jennifer Tehan Stanley1, Fredda Blanchard-Fields
1Department of Psychology, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332-0170, USA.
Abstract:
Facial expressions of emotion are key cues to deceit (M. G. Frank & P. Ekman, 1997). Given that the literature on aging has shown an age-related decline in decoding emotions, we investigated (a) whether there are age differences in deceit detection and (b) if so, whether they are related to impairments in emotion recognition. Young and older adults (N = 364) were presented with 20 interviews (crime and opinion topics) and asked to decide whether each interview subject was lying or telling the truth. There were 3 presentation conditions: visual, audio, or audiovisual. In older adults, reduced emotion recognition was related to poor deceit detection in the visual condition for crime interviews only.
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